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Tuesday, 14 May 2013

The Hotel Room

Note: I'm not the authour of this story. I've translated it from original Japanese into English. Please do NOT copy and paste it somewhere else on the web without my permission.

(This is a cryptic story)

Before a business trip, my colleague told me that the hotel at which I was staying was haunted.
That night I was trembling from fear as I went to bed.

Sure enough, in the middle of the night, I heard some knockings on the door.
At first I thought it was someone from the hotel service and I asked the person what he wanted, but there was no answer.
I was afraid to look in the direction of the door and ended up just lying there awake, while the relentless knocking continued throughout the night.
In the morning, as soon as the knocking halted, I hurried to the front desk and checked out.

I told my colleague about the knocking after I got back and he said, "I knew this would happen," and he told me a story about an incident that happened at the hotel long time ago.
The hotel was once set on fire and there was a guy who failed to escape.
This guy unfortunately got trapped inside his room and died right there.

Phew, that was close. It makes me shudder to think what would've happened to me if I'd opened that door.

@Kimber: That is a kindly thought, dear. I never looked at the story in that way! This is why I enjoy comments from people so much. They give me differenct perspectives from which to read these stories. Thank you for that! ;)

@Sadae: Hi, thank you for welcoming me back! I don't know if I ever heard from someone from Mexico before. Thank you very much for popping in to leave a message! :D

Me and my friend theorized that maybe the person that slept in the room was actually a ghost of the person who died in the fire and the knocking on the door was actually staff trying to get him to get out because the hotel was burning. He was just reliving his death over and over again.

---But wait-there are some differents in ur version.and he reveal the cryptic part LOL to be honest, I'm more prever with ur translates. it's more pointed-out and most of the main character named anonymously so it's likes : this story could be happened to everyone.WITH NO EXCEPTION.

@Anon (30 May): I saw the other story. Yeah, it's similar to mine, but I don't think we both translated the same version of the story. But you know, with an interesting story like that, it's usual to get different versions of it. Thanks for your comment!

Oh I had that in France during a school trip, and something knocked on my door right as I had closed it and I opened it to see no one even in the hallway(Mind you you would've heard it if someone walked away)

Either a weird space-time loop and he is a ghost who always goes back to die in the room, and the knocking is the staff/ other guests trying to get him out.

Less creepy than the other option, which is the ghost having actually been in the room, knocking on the door all night long. The story does make a point to say that he was too afraid to look at the door.

This one doesn't make so much sense though because how would you get stuck inside your room in a burning hotel, the doors only lock from the inside...don't they?

Anonymous, you are nothing but a contemptible little leach and the only thing you truly deserve is utter derision. It is people like you, with your limitless sense of entitlement and your lack of regard for others, who ruin nice things for everyone else. Saya puts in hard work translating these stories and only makes one request in return -- namely, that people link to her blog rather than copy and paste them. Despite your selfish attitude, you have absolutely no right to ignore Saya's wishes when it comes to what she posts here. You should be ashamed of yourself and, really, you owe Saya an apology.

To anyone else reading, including Saya -- sorry for the rant. It's just that the utter disrespect shown by comments such as that one make me sick and there is no excuse for such behavior.

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